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Illustrations of the American ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte : with the addition of numerous recently discovered species and representations of the whole sylvae of North America.

by: Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862; Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813. American ornithology; Turvey, James, engraver

Publication date: 1835

Topics: Pictorial works, Birds

Publisher: Edinburgh : Frazer & Co. ; Dublin : William Curry Junr. & Co. ; London : Smith, Elder & Co.

Collection: biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

statement of responsibility: by Captain Thomas Brown

T.p. signed: Designed & engraved by James Turvey. Dedication page, to the Earl of Airlie, also engraved. Plates are variously signed

Plates are hand-colored

Plates are not numbered sequentially

citation/reference: Faxon, W. "A rare work on American ornithology," The Auk, v. 20, p. 236-241

citation/reference: Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib., p. 102

citation/reference: Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher, 152

Faxon, W. "A rare work on American ornithology," The Auk

Zimmer, J.T. Ayer Lib

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher

SCNHRB copy (39088015708811) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Smithson Society purchase, 1982

SCNHRB copy bound in three-quarters red goatskin and cloth, title in gilt within black goatskin spine label, marbled endpapers; binding by Bernard Middleton